Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I forgot to mention the importance of completing and returning the course evaluation form which we need to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the event , as well as to compile a report to our funding bodies at the end of the year . |
| 2 | More representatively there can be a sneaking hope that to explain is somehow to justify ; and the novels , plays and poems that depict British self-sufficiency and its lapses often smack , like Larkin 's poem ‘ Vers de société ’ , of a sort of rueful mock-modesty : a determination to put a case for oneself as well as to record a mood . |
| 3 | The CER had been very successful for New Zealand , which since 1983 had been able to increase by 170 per cent its exports of mainly agricultural products to the relatively large Australian market , as well as to correct a large bilateral trade deficit . |
| 4 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |
| 5 | An estimated 5,000 public-sector health workers , taking action against government privatization plans , were joined on strike in late June by 8,500 banana workers , who came out both in solidarity with them as well as to demand a 60 per cent wage increase to offset the effects of the government 's March austerity plan . |
| 6 | Practice and research are intertwined ; good doctors have an obligation to inquire as well as to provide a clinical service , and codes of conduct and ethical guidelines that recommend different rules for practice and research create an undesirable dichotomy that itself has ethical implications . |